Motivational Quotes

Evil

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Evil

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

Arendt, Hannah

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

12.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

33.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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Evil brings men together.